Concatenating

String Concatenation (+)

Use the plus operator

str1 = "some" 
str2 = "text" 
result = str1 + str2 

print(result[3])       ' positive indices from the left / start  
print(result[-3])       ' negative indices from the right / end  

str3 = ''                  ' empty string 

string.format

custom string formatting

textstring = 'Hello, ' + first_name + ' ' + last_name 
textstring = 'Hello, {} {}'.format(first_name, last_name) 
textstring = 'Hello, {0} {1}'.format(first_name, last_name) 
textstring = f'Hello, {first_name} {last_name}' 

The 'f' stands for format and the variable names are used inline.